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The Verification Academy offers users multiple entry points to find the information they need. One of these entry points is through Topic collections. These topics are industry standards that all design and verification engineers should recognize. While we continue to add new topics, users are encourage to further refine collection information to meet their specific interests.

Techniques & Tools

The Verification Academy is organized into a collection of free online courses, focusing on various key aspects of advanced functional verification. Each course consists of multiple sessions—allowing the participant to pick and choose specific topics of interest, as well as revisit any specific topics for future reference.
After completing a specific course, the participant should be armed with enough knowledge to then understand the necessary steps required for maturing their own organization’s skills and infrastructure on the specific topic of interest. The Verification Academy will provide you with a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of how to mature your organization’s processes so that you can then reap the benefits that advanced functional verification offers.

Analog/Mixed Signal

The Verification Community is eager to answer your UVM, SystemVerilog and Coverage related questions. We encourage you to take an active role in the Forums by answering and commenting to any questions that you are able to.

Coverage Forum

Additional Forums

The Verification Academy Patterns Library contains a collection of solutions to many of today's verification problems. The patterns contained in the library span across the entire domain of verification (i.e., from specification to methodology to implementation—and across multiple verification engines such as formal, simulation, and emulation).

No one argues that the challenges of verification are growing exponentially. What is needed to meet these challenges are tools, methodologies and processes that can help you transform your verification environment. These recorded seminars from Verification Academy trainers and users provide examples for adoption of new technologies and how to evolve your verification process.

Mentor Learning Center

The Verification Academy will provide you with a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of how to mature your organization's processes so that you can then reap the benefits that advanced functional verification offers.

New School Stimulus Generation Techniques

Session Details

Techniques for generating verification stimulus have been around as long there have been designs to verify. As the designs being verified have become more complex, stimulus generation techniques have evolved to address the emerging requirements. From directed tests to random test generation to graph-based intelligent testbench automation, development of these stimulus generation techniques has evolved from specific verification challenges. The development of a new stimulus generation technique rarely results in the obsolescence of previously-created stimulus generation techniques. Picking the right stimulus generation techniques to use is crucial to efficiently achieving quality functional verification results. This session will explore the three dominant stimulus generation techniques used today for functional verification to identify; the characteristics of stimulus generated by each technique, where each technique best applies on its own and how these new school techniques can be combined to achieve even greater verification value.